In my setup, I have tolerance for a single drive failing. Because of this, I have a cold spare drive in case of drive failures. Hard drives generally have very good Mean Time Between Failures – however, there’s the problem of infant mortality or drives that just fail very early in their life. For a…
Month: January 2026
Using the Sonos App Across VLANs
This is a continuation of the previous post where we tackled using the Kasa app with the controller (app) and devices in different VLANs. Here, we tackle Sonos, specifically Sonos S1 where the controller (app) and speakers are on different VLANs and the default firewall rule prevents communication from untrusted VLAN (where the Sonos speakers…
Local control of TP-Link Kasa switches from Kasa app across VLANs
At long last, I started taking network security a bit more seriously at home and started restricting access to the Internet to some of my dubious IoT devices. To improve the security of the home network, the first step was creating VLAN setups – I now have one trusted VLAN and one untrusted VLAN. All…